1 apt (0.6.31) hoary; urgency=low
4 - Remove debugging output from apt.cron.daily (no one noticed?)
5 - Apply patch from Anthony Towns to allow SHA1Summation to process a file
6 descriptor until EOF, rather than requiring that the length of input be
7 specified (Closes: #291338)
8 - Fix build/install of Polish offline documentation, based on patch from
9 Christian Perrier (Closes: #270404)
11 - apt-cdrom.cc seperated into frontend (cmdline/apt-cdrom.cc and library
12 apt-pkg/cdrom.{cc,h}) (Ubuntu #5668)
14 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:23:01 -0800
16 apt (0.6.30) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Add ppc64 to buildlib/archtable
19 * Merge michael.vogt@canonical.com--2004/apt--status-fd--0
20 - Support preserving dpkg status file descriptor, to support
21 better integration with synaptic
23 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:26:01 -0800
25 apt (0.6.29) hoary; urgency=low
27 * Merge apt--mvo--0 (0.6.27ubuntu4)
30 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:18:02 -0800
32 apt (0.6.28) hoary; urgency=low
35 * Rebuild source to get rid of arch metadata and temporary files in
38 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:53:16 -0800
40 apt (0.6.27ubuntu4) hoary; urgency=low
42 * remove old sig-file in partial/ before starting to fetch a new sig-file
43 (see ubuntu #4769 for the rational)
44 * added apt-key update method (uses ubuntu-keyring)
45 * documented the "--allow-unauthenticated" switch
46 * added DEB_BUILD_PROG_OPTS to debian/rules (additonal options can be
47 passed to DEB_BUILD_PROG like "-S")
49 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:12:51 +0100
51 apt (0.6.27ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low
53 * added a exact dependency from libapt-pkg-dev to the apt version it was
56 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:56:32 +0100
58 apt (0.6.27ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
60 * fixed a bug in the rule file that happend during the big 0.5->0.6 merge
62 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:14:25 +0100
64 apt (0.6.27ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low
66 * chmod 755 /usr/bin/apt-key
67 * don't display a error when a apt-get update don't find a
68 Packages.bz2/Sources.bz2 file
70 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:40:21 +0100
72 apt (0.6.27) hoary; urgency=low
74 * Merge apt--authentication--0 branch
75 - Implement gpg authentication for package repositories (Closes: #203741)
76 - Also includes Michael Vogt's fixes
77 * Merge apt--misc-abi-changes--0 branch
78 - Use pid_t throughout to hold process IDs (Closes: #226701)
79 - Import patch from Debian bug #195510: (Closes: #195510)
80 - Make Simulate::Describe and Simulate::ShortBreaks private member
82 - Add a parameter (Candidate) to Describe to control whether the
83 candidate version is displayed
84 - Pass an appropriate value for Candidate everywhere Describe is called
86 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:03:11 -0800
88 apt (0.5.32) hoary; urgency=low
90 * Call setlocale in the methods, so that the messages are properly
91 localised (Closes: #282700)
92 * Implement support for bzip2-compressed debs (data.tar.bz2)
94 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:05:52 -0800
96 apt (0.5.31) unstable; urgency=low
98 * New Romanian translation from Sorin Batariuc <sorin@bonbon.net>
100 * Merge changes from Hoary (0.5.30,0.5.30ubuntu2]
101 * Fix the example in apt_preferences(5) to match the text
103 * Add APT::Periodic::Autoclean setting, to allow "apt-get autoclean" to
104 be run periodically. This is useful with
105 APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages, and defaults to the same
106 value, so that the cache size is bounded
108 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:53:04 -0800
110 apt (0.5.30ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
112 * bzip2 is now "Suggested" and it will detect if bzip2 is installed
113 and only then trying to get Packages.bz2
115 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:00:39 +0100
117 apt (0.5.30ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low
119 * Need to Depend: bzip2 or Packages.bz2 fail.
121 -- LaMont Jones <lamont@canonical.com> Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:51:05 -0700
123 apt (0.5.30) hoary; urgency=low
125 * Patch from Michael Vogt to enable Packages.bz2 use, with a fallback to
126 Packages.gz if it is not present (Closes: #37525)
128 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:57:28 -0800
130 apt (0.5.29) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Don't hardcode paths in apt.cron.daily
133 * Add to apt.cron.daily the capability to pre-download upgradeable
135 * Place timestamp files in /var/lib/apt/periodic, rather than
137 * Standardize debhelper files a bit
138 - Create all directories in debian/dirs rather than creating some on
139 the dh_installdirs command line
140 - Rename debian/dirs to debian/apt.dirs, debian/examples to
143 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:58:07 -0800
145 apt (0.5.28) hoary; urgency=low
147 * Translation updates:
148 - Updated Hungarian from Kelemen Gábor <kelemeng@gnome.hu> (Closes: #263436)
149 - Updated Greek from George Papamichelakis (Closes: #265004)
150 - Updated Simplified Chinese from Tchaikov (Closes: #265190)
151 - Updated French by Christian Perrier (Closes: #265816)
152 - Updated Japanese by Kenshi Muto (Closes: #265630)
153 - Updated Catalan from Jordi Mallach
154 - Updated Dutch from Bart Cornelis (Closes: #268258, #278697)
155 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #268265)
156 - Updated Polish from Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> (Closes: #268451)
157 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #269417)
158 - Updated Norwegian Nynorsk from Håvard Korsvoll <korsvoll@skulelinux.no>
160 - Updated Russian from Yuri Kozlov <yuray@id.ru> (Closes: #271104)
161 - Updated Italian from Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@debian.org>
163 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese from Andre Luis Lopes (Closes: #273944)
164 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #279481)
165 * APT::Get::APT::Get::No-List-Cleanup -> APT::Get::List-Cleanup in apt-get.cc
167 * Merge Ubuntu changes:
168 - Set default Dpkg::MaxArgs to 1024, and Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to 32k.
169 Needed to work around ordering bugs when installing a large number of
171 - Patch from Michael Vogt to add an optional cron job which
172 can run apt-get update periodically
173 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
175 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:52:20 -0800
177 apt (0.5.27) unstable; urgency=high
179 * Sneak in a bunch of updated translations before the freeze
181 * Translation updates:
182 - New Finnish translation from Tapio Lehtonen <tale@debian.org>
184 - New Bosnian translation from Safir Šećerović <sapphire@linux.org.ba>
186 - Fix Italian incontrario (Closes: #217277)
187 - Updated Spanish from Ruben Porras (Closes: #260483)
188 - Updated Danish from Claus Hindsgaul (Closes: #260569)
189 - Updated Slovak from Peter Mann (Closes: #260627)
190 - Updated Portuguese from Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #261423)
191 * Bring configure-index up to date with documented options, patch from
192 Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (Closes: #259540)
193 * Note in apt.conf(5) that configure-index does not contain strictly
194 default values, but also examples
195 * Add Polish translation of offline.sgml (Closes: #259229)
197 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:30:12 -0700
199 apt (0.5.26) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Translation updates:
202 - Spanish update from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #248214)
203 - Sync Spanish apt(8) (Closes: #249241)
204 - French update from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (Closes: #248614)
205 - New Slovak translation from Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk> (Closes: #251676)
206 - Czech update from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #251682)
207 - pt_BR update from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #251961)
208 - German translation of apt(8) from Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>
210 - pt update from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org> (Closes: #252700)
211 - New Hebrew translation from Lior Kaplan <webmaster@guides.co.il>
213 - New Basque translation from Piarres Beobide Egaña <pi@beobide.net>
214 (Vasco - Euskara - difficult language, Closes: #254407) and already a
215 correction (Closes: #255760)
216 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation from
217 Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@colband.com.br> (Closes: #256396)
218 - Updated Greek translation (complete now) from
219 George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr> (Closes: #256797)
220 - New Korean translation from Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>
222 - German translation now available in two flavours: with Unicode usage and
223 without (related to #228486, #235759)
224 * Update apt-get(8) to reflect the fact that APT::Get::Only-Source will
225 affect apt-get build-dep as well as apt-get source
226 * Remove aborted remnants of a different method of implementing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
228 * Fix typo in error message when encountering unknown type in source list
230 * Update k*bsd-gnu arch names in buildlib/ostable (Closes: #253532)
231 * Add amd64 to buildlib/archtable (Closes: #240896)
232 * Have configure output a more useful error message if the architecture
235 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:53:28 -0700
237 apt (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Patch from Jason Gunthorpe to remove arbitrary length limit on Binary
240 field in SourcesWriter::DoPackage
241 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #238578)
242 * Fix obsolete reference to bug(1) in stub apt(8) man page
244 * Fix typo in configure-index (RecruseDepends -> RecurseDepends)
246 * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt in debian/rules
248 * Increase length of line buffer in ReadConfigFile to 1024 chars;
249 detect if a line is longer than that and error out
251 * Suppress a signed/unsigned warning in apt-cache.cc:DisplayRecord
252 * Build apt-ftparchive with libdb4.2 rather than libdb2
253 - Patch from Clint Adams to do most of the work
254 - Build-Depends: s/libdb2-dev/libdb4.2-dev/
255 - Add AC_PREREQ(2.50) to configure.in
256 - Use db_strerror(err) rather than GlobalError::Errno (which uses strerror)
257 - Add note to NEWS.Debian about upgrading old databases
258 * Attempt to fix problems with chunked encoding by stripping only a single CR
260 * Modify debian/rules cvs-build to use cvs export, to avoid picking up
261 junk files from the working directory
262 * Add lang=fr attribute to refentry section of
263 apt-extracttemplates.fr.1.sgml and apt-sortpkgs.fr.1.sgml so they are
265 * Remove extraneous '\' characters from <command> tags in
266 apt_preferences.fr.5.sgml
267 * Translation updates:
268 - Updated Swedish translation from Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
270 - New Slovenian translation from Jure Čuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
272 - New Portuguese translation from Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
274 - Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
275 - Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
276 <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
277 - Updated Simplified Chinese translation from "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
279 - Updated Russian translation from Dmitry Astapov <adept@despammed.com>
281 - Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
283 - Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
285 - Updated Japanese translation from Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>
287 - Run make -C po update-po to update .po files
288 - Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
290 - Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
293 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 8 May 2004 12:52:20 -0700
295 apt (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Updated Czech translation from Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
299 * Updated French translation from Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
301 * Updates to XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
302 * Updated Danish translation from Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>
304 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis
307 * Updated Spanish translation from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
309 * Updated pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
311 * Regenerate .pot file (Closes: #237892)
312 * Updated Polish translation from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
314 * In pkgAcquire::Shutdown(), set the status of fetching items to
315 StatError to avoid a sometimes large batch of error messages
317 * Implement an ugly workaround for the 10000-character limit on the
318 Binaries field in debSrcRecordParser, until such time as some things
319 can be converted over to use STL data types (ABI change) (Closes: #236688)
320 * Increase default tagfile buffer from 32k to 128k; this arbitrary limit
321 should also be removed someday (Closes: #174945)
322 * Checked against Standards-Version 3.6.1 (no changes)
324 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:47:55 -0800
326 apt (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Cosmetic updates to XML man pages from Richard Bos <radoeka@xs4all.nl>
329 * Use the 'binary' target rather than 'all' so that the ssh and bzip2
330 symlinks are created correctly (thanks to Adam Heath)
332 * Updated Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from Tchaikov
333 <chaisave@263.net> (Closes: #234186)
334 * Change default for Acquire::http::max-age to 0 to prevent index files
335 being out of sync with each other (important with Release.gpg)
336 * Add an assert() to make sure that we don't overflow a fixed-size
337 buffer in the very unlikely event that someone adds 10 packaging
338 systems to apt (Closes: #233678)
339 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
340 made it tricky to type, again. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
341 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #234494)
342 * Print a slightly clearer error message if no packaging systems are
343 available (Closes: #233681)
344 * Point to Build-Depends in COMPILING (Closes: #233669)
345 * Make debian/rules a bit more consistent in a few places.
346 Specifically, always use -p$@ rather than an explicit package name,
347 and always specify it first, and use dh_shlibdeps -l uniformly rather
348 than sometimes changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH directly
349 * Document unit for Cache-Limit (bytes) (Closes: #234737)
350 * Don't translate "Yes, do as I say!" in Chinese locales, because it can
351 be difficult to input (Closes: #234886)
353 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:08:14 -0800
355 apt (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Updated French translation of man pages from Philippe Batailler
358 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #203119)
359 * Initialize StatusFile in debSystem (Closes: #229791)
360 * Fix apt-get's suggests/recommends printing, which was skipping every
361 other dependency due to both using GlobOr and incrementing the DepIterator
363 * Restore SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers to their old values (rather than
364 SIG_DFL) after invoking dpkg (Closes: #229854)
365 * Updated Dutch translation of message catalog from cobaco
366 <cobaco@linux.be> (Closes: #229601)
367 * Catalan translation from Antoni Bella, Matt Bonner and Jordi Mallach
369 * Simplified Chinese translation of message catalog from "Carlos
370 Z.F. Liu" <carlos_liu@yahoo.com> (Closes: #230960)
371 * Replace SGML manpages with XML man pages from richard.bos@xs4all.nl
373 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
374 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #231539)
375 * New Czech translation of message catalog from Miroslav Kure
376 <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #231921)
378 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:44:54 -0800
380 apt (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Patch from Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> to include apt18n.h after
383 other headers to avoid breaking locale.h when setlocale() is defined
384 as an empty macro. This was not a problem on Debian, but broke
385 compilation on Solaris. (Closes: #226509)
386 * Updated French translation from Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org>
388 * Add colons to apt-get's "kept back"/"upgraded"/"downgraded" messages
390 * Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #226351)
391 * Clearer error message in place of "...has no available version, but
392 exists in the database" (Closes: #212203)
393 * Patch from Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx> to use AC_CACHE_VAL for
394 GLIBC_VER to make cross-compilation easier (Closes: #221528)
395 * Add example preferences file (Closes: #220799)
396 * Updated Greek translation from Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
398 * Updated Spanish translation of man pages from Ruben Porras
399 <nahoo82@telefonica.net> (Closes: #227729)
401 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:54:39 -0800
403 apt (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fixed German translations of "Suggested" from Christian Garbs
406 <debian@cgarbs.de> (Closes: #197960)
407 * Add an "apt-cache madison" command with an output format similar to
408 the katie tool of the same name (but less functionality)
409 * Fix debSourcesIndex::Describe() to correctly say "Sources" rather than
412 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:42:50 -0800
414 apt (0.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Fix Packages::Extensions support in apt-ftparchive generate
419 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:20:31 -0800
421 apt (0.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
423 * New no_NO.po file from Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org> to fix
424 encoding problems (Closes: #225602)
425 * Have "apt-ftparchive release" strip the leading path component from
428 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:24:35 -0800
430 apt (0.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Enable apt-ftparchive to generate Release files. Hopefully this will
433 make it easier for folks to secure their apt-able packages
435 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:53:21 -0800
437 apt (0.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
439 * po/de.po update from Michael Karcher <karcher@physik.fu-berlin.de>
441 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20031007.1
442 * Add knetbsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #212344)
443 * Don't suggest apt-get -f install to correct broken build-deps; broken
444 installed packages are rarely the cause (Closes: #220858)
445 * Avoid clobbering configure.in if sed fails
447 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:54:40 -0800
449 apt (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Spanish man pages, patch from Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>
453 - apt.es.8 wasn't included in the patch, but was referenced. Fetched
454 version 1.3 from debian-doc cvs
455 - Create doc/es/.cvsignore
456 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix
457 pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::Label() to correctly refer to File->Label
458 rather than File->Origin (Closes: #213311)
459 * Add missing comma and space to German translation of "downgraded"
461 * Add missing comma in apt_preferences(5) (Closes: #215362)
462 * Fix whitespace in French translation of "Yes, do as I say!", which
463 made it tricky to type. Thanks to Sylvain Pasche
464 <sylvain.pasche@switzerland.org> (Closes: #217152)
465 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the installed package
466 doesn't meet version requirements (Closes: #214736)
467 * Fix version display for recommends (Closes: #219900)
468 * Use isatty rather than ttyname for checking if stdin is a terminal.
469 isatty has the advantage of not requiring /proc under Linux, and thus
471 * Correctly implement -n as a synonym for --names-only (Closes: #224515)
472 * Update apt-cache(8)
473 - Document --installed
474 - --recursive applies to both depends and rdepends
475 * Japanese translation of documentation from Kurasawa Nozomu <nabetaro@slug.jp>
477 * Clarify documentation of --no-upgrade in apt-get(8) (Closes: #219743)
478 * Clean up and simplify some of the suggests/recommends display in apt-get
479 * Use cvs update -d in debian/rules cvs-build rather than just update
480 * Pass --preserve-envvar PATH --preserve-envvar CCACHE_DIR to debuild. apt
481 takes a long time to build, and ccache helps
483 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:34:30 -0800
485 apt (0.5.14) unstable; urgency=low
487 * apt-get build-dep, when trying to skip over the remaining elements of
488 an or-expression, would accidentally inherit the version requirements of a
489 later item in the or-expression. Fixed it.
490 * Let apt-get build-dep try alternatives if the first dependency in an
491 or-expression is not available
492 * Add a Debug::BuildDeps to generate some trace output
493 * Help apt-get build-dep produce more useful error messages
494 * Process build-dependencies in forward rather than reverse order
495 * Error out if an installed package is too new for a << or <=
497 * apt-get build-dep should now be able to handle almost any package with
498 correct build-depends. The primary exception is build-dependencies on
499 virtual packages with more than one provider, and these are
500 discouraged for automated processing (but still common,
503 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:57:31 -0400
505 apt (0.5.13) unstable; urgency=medium
507 * Document configuration file comment syntax in apt.conf(5)
509 * s/removed/installed/ in a comment in apt-get.cc
510 * Move comment for ListParser::ParseDepends into the right place
511 * Don't preserve ownership when copying config.guess and config.sub.
512 This broke builds where the clean target was run with different
513 privileges than the rest of the build (i.e., root) (Closes: #212183)
514 * On second thought, don't copy config.guess and config.sub at all. I'd
515 rather they always match what is in CVS.
517 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:28:17 -0400
519 apt (0.5.12) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Exclude subdirectories named 'debian-installer' from the apt-cdrom
522 search (Closes: #210485 -- release-critical)
524 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:48:14 -0400
526 apt (0.5.11) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Updated pt_BR translations from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org>
530 * In apt.conf(5), give the fully qualified name of Dir::Bin::Methods,
531 rather than just "methods"
532 * Add new nb and nn translations from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
533 * Clean up reportbug script a bit, and extend it to distinguish between a
534 configuration file not existing and the user declining to submit it with
536 * Add #include <langinfo.h> to cmdline/apt-get.cc. This apparently gets
537 pulled in by something else with recent g++ and/or glibc, but is
538 required when building on, e.g., stable
539 * Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> to fix version
540 comparisons with '~' (Closes: #205960)
541 * Disable Russian translation until someone can review it
544 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:41:28 -0400
546 apt (0.5.10) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Correct the section in apt_preferences(5) on interpreting priorities
549 to show that zero is not a valid priority, and print a warning if such
550 a pin is encountered in the preferences file (Closes: #204971)
551 * Regenerate French man pages from sgml source (Closes: #205886)
552 * Get self-tests compiling again, updated for latest library API
554 * Add version comparison tests for #194327 and #205960
555 * Fix error message in version test to output versions in the order in
556 which they were compared when the reverse comparison fails
557 * Reference the source package bug page rather than the one for the
558 binary package 'apt' in the man pages (Closes: #205290)
559 * Updated Polish po file from Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
561 * Mention some of the available frontends in apt-get(8) (Closes: #205829)
562 * Add apt-config to SEE ALSO section of apt-get (Closes: #205036)
563 * Add missing "lang" attributes to refentry tags in French man pages
564 (apt-cdrom, apt-extracttemplates, apt-sortpkgs)
565 * Change upgraded/newly installed/not fully installed or removed
566 messages to be consistent and somewhat shorter (some translations
567 exceeded 80 characters even in the simplest case)
568 * Make APT::Get::Show-Upgraded (aka apt-get -u) default to true.
569 * Updates to Dutch translation from Bart Cornelis <cobaco@linux.be>
572 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:12:39 -0400
574 apt (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Oh well, apt isn't going to make it into testing anytime soon due to
577 new glibc and gcc deps, so we might as well fix more bugs
578 * Fix typo in example ftp-archive.conf (Closes: #203295)
579 * Mention default setting for --all-versions (Closes: #203298)
580 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to have --version
581 only print the version (and not usage as well) (Closes: #203418)
582 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to switch from
583 dh_installmanpages to dh_installman. Fixes the problem where the
584 pt_BR man page was installed in the wrong location (Closes: #194558)
585 * Move the French apt-ftparchive man page into apt-utils where it
586 belongs. apt-utils Replaces: apt (<< 0.5.9)
587 * Write records from "apt-cache show" using fwrite(3) rather than
588 write(2), in case for some reason the entire record doesn't get
589 written by a single write(2)
590 * Add new French man pages to doc/fr/.cvsignore
591 * Add freebsd to buildlib/ostable (Closes: #193430)
592 * Avoid segfault if a package name is specified which consists
593 entirely of characters which look like end tags ('+', '-')
595 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
596 suggests/recommends for packages which are selected for installation
597 at the same time as the package which suggests/recommends them
599 * Patch from Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> to avoid listing
600 suggests/recommends which are Provided by a package which is already
601 installed (Closes: #200395)
602 * Patch to update pt_BR man page for apt_preferences(5) from Andre Luis
603 Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> (Closes: #202245)
604 * Use nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) rather than comparing to the translated
605 string "Y". Closes: #200953 and should make the prompting generally
606 more robust in the face of i18n. In the particular case of #200953,
607 it was being fooled because of signedness issues with toupper(3)
609 * apt Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | gnome-apt | wajig
611 * Clean up whitespace in translated strings in ru.po, which messed up
612 indentation (some other translations probably have similar problems)
614 * Run ispell -h over the man page sources and fix a bunch of typos
615 * Use debian/compat rather than DH_COMPAT
616 * Update to debhelper compatibility level 3
617 - remove ldconfig calls from debian/{postinst,postrm} as dh_makeshlibs
619 - echo 3 > debian/compat
620 - Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3)
621 * Exclude '.#*' from cvs-build
622 * Let the ftp method work with ftp servers which do not require a
623 password (Closes: #199425)
624 * Build-depend on debhelper >= 4.1.62, because we need the fix for
625 #204731 in order for dh_installman to work correctly
626 with our SGML man pages
627 * Move dh_makeshlibs ahead of dh_installdeb so that its postinst
628 fragments are properly substituted
630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:54:39 -0400
632 apt (0.5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
634 * urgency=medium because the changes since 0.5.5.1 are pretty safe as
635 far as core functionality, 0.5.5.1 survived unstable for 10 days, and
636 I don't want to delay apt's progress into testing any further. It's
637 decidedly better than 0.5.4.
638 * Clarify the meaning of the only-source option in apt-get(8)
640 * Updated French man pages from Philippe Batailler
641 <philippe.batailler@free.fr> (Closes: #182194)
642 * Give a warning if an illegal type abbreviation is used when looking up a
643 configuration item (Closes: #168453)
644 * Improve build-depends handling of virtual packages even further, so that
645 it will now also try to satisfy build-depends on virtual packages if they
646 are not installed. Note that this only works if there is only one
647 package providing the virtual package, as in other cases (Closes: #165404)
648 * Update config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev 20030717.1
649 * Tweak SGML in apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml so that literal '>' doesn't end
651 * Document SrcDirectory in apt-ftparchive.1.sgml (Closes: #156370)
652 * Support TMPDIR in apt-extracttemplates (Closes: #191656)
653 * Fix ru.po to use a capital letter for the translation of 'Y' so that
654 YnPrompt works correctly (Closes: #200953). No other translations seem
656 * Regenerate POT file and sync .po files
657 * Only try to clear stdin if it is a tty, to avoid looping if there is
658 lots of stuff (perhaps an infinite amount) to read (Closes: #192228)
660 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:53 -0400
662 apt (0.5.7) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Update control file to match overrides (apt priority important,
665 libapt-pkg-dev section libdevel)
666 * Silence the essential packages check if we are only downloading
667 archives and not changing the system (Closes: #190862)
668 * Skip version check if a build-dependency is provided by an installed package
670 * Have apt-cache show exit with an error if it cannot find any of the
671 specified packages (Closes: #101490)
673 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:43:24 -0400
675 apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
678 - Fix segfault when handling /etc/apt/preferences. Closes: #192409.
679 * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
680 - Clean up some string handling, patch from Peter Lundkvist
681 <p.lundkvist@telia.com> (Closes: #192225)
682 - Don't fall off the end of the buffer when comparing versions.
683 Patch from Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu> (Closes: #194327)
684 - Minor fixes to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #118156)
685 - Fix typo in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #119072)
686 - More typos in apt-ftparchive help text (Closes: #190936)
687 - Update config.guess, config.sub to latest versions
688 - Modify the description for apt-utils to reflect the fact that it is not
689 (any longer) infrequently used (Closes: #138045)
690 - Make setup script for dselect method more explicit about
691 overwriting sources.list (Closes: #151727)
692 - Fix typo in apt-cache(8) (Closes: #161243)
693 - Remove duplicate 'showpkg' from synopsis on apt-cache(8)
695 - Document in apt-get(8) the meaning of the '*' in ShowList, which is that
696 the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
697 - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
698 - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
699 - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)
700 - Fix incorrect path for 'partial' directory on apt-get(8)
702 - Fixes to pt_BR translation from Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br>
704 - Updated apt_preferences(5) man page with many corrections and
705 clarifications from Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
707 - Fix SGML validation errors in apt-cache.8.sgml introduced in 0.5.5 or so
708 - Add a simple example to apt-ftparchive(1) (Closes: #95257)
709 - Add bug script for collecting configuration info (Closes: #176482)
711 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:59:43 -0400
713 apt (0.5.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Move the target of the example docs from doc to binary. Closes:
717 * Fix api breakage that broke apt-ftparchive and apt-cache dumpavail, by
718 backing out change that incorretly attempted to handle Package sections
719 larger than 32k. Closes: #192373
720 * Fix never-ending loop with apt-get install -V. Closes: #192355.
722 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2003 12:30:16 -0500
724 apt (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
726 * New deb version compare function, that has no integer limits, and
727 supports pre-versions using ~. Code ported from dpkg.
728 * Fix handling of [!arch] for build-dependencies. Closes: #88798, #149595
729 * Fix handling of build-deps on unknown packages. Closes: #88664, #153307
730 * "apt-get --arch-only build-dep" to install only architecture-
731 dependent build dependencies. Bump minor shared lib number to reflect
732 small change in BuildDepend API.
733 * APT::Build-Essential configuration option (defaults to "build-essential")
734 so that "apt-get build-dep" will ensure build essential packages are
735 installed prior to installing other build-dependencies. Closes: #148879
736 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #109430, #147529
737 * /usr/doc reference in postinst. Closes: #126189
738 * Doc updates. Closes: #120689
739 * Possible apt-cache segfault. Closes: #120311, #118431, #117915, #135295,
741 * Print special message for EAI_AGAIN. Closes: #131397
742 * libapt-pkg-dev needs to bring in the apt-inst library if linking
743 is to work. Closes: #133943
744 * Typos, Doc Stuff. Closes: #132772, #129970, #123642, #114892, #113786,
745 #109591, #105920, #103678, #139752, #138186, #138054, #138050,
746 #139994, #142955, #151654, #151834, #147611, #154268, #173971
747 * Fix possibility for tag file parsing to fail in some unlikely situations.
749 * Use std C++ names for some header files. Closes: #128741
750 * Do not check for free space if --no-download. Closes: #117856
751 * Actually implement or group handling for 'upgrade'. Closes: #133950
752 * "Internal Error, Couldn't configure pre-depend" is not actually an
753 internal error, it is a packaging error and now it says so, and
754 pinpoints the problem dependency. Closes: #155621
755 * Allows failure to write to a pipe for post-invoke stuff. Closes: #89830
756 * Use usr/share/doc for dhelp. Closes: #115701
757 * --print-uris works with 'update'. Closes: #57070
758 * Options Dpkg::MaxArgs,Dpkg::MaxArgBytes to allow a much longer dpkg
760 * Fixed 2 little OR group bugs, thanks to Yann Dirson. Closes: #143995,
762 * Allow an uninstalled package to be marked for removal on an install
763 line (meaning not to automatically install it), also fix some dodgy
764 handling of protected packages. Closes: #92287, #116011
765 * Fix errant prefix matching in version selection. Closes: #105968
766 * Ensure that all files needed to run APT as a user are readable and
767 ignore roots umask for these files. Closes: #108801
768 * Support larger config spaces. Closes: #111914
769 * 'apt-get update' no longer does 'Building Dependency Tree'.
770 * When matching regexs allways print a message. Change regex activation
771 charset. Closes: #147817
772 * Don't die if lines in sources.list are too long. Closes: #146846
773 * Show file name on apt-extracttemplate error messges. Closes: #151835
774 * i18n gettext stuff, based on work from Michael Piefel: Closes: #95933
775 * Some highly unlikely memory faults. Closes: #155842
776 * C++ stuff for G++3.2. Closes: #162617, #165515,
777 * apt-config dumps sends to stdout not stderr now. Closes: #146294
778 * Fix segfault in FindAny when /i is used, and there is no default.
780 * Add s390x to archtable. Closese: #160992.
781 * Update config.sub/config.guess in cvs, and add support to debian/rules
782 to update them from /usr/share/misc if they exist. Closes: #155014
783 * Remove 'Sorry' from messages. Closes: #148824.
784 * Change wording of 'additional disk space usage' message. Closes:
786 * apt-extracttemplates now prepends the package name when extracting
787 files. Closes: #132776
788 * Add -n synonym for --names-only for apt-cache. Closes: #130689
789 * Display both current version and new version in apt-get -s. Closes:
791 * Add an options and timeout config item to ssh/rsh. Closes: #90654
792 * libapt-pkg-dev now depends on apt-utils. Closes: #133942.
793 * Change verbose logging output of apt-ftparchive to go to stderr,
794 instead of stdout. Also, errors that occur no longer go to stdout,
795 but stderr. Closes: #161592
796 * Test for timegm in configure. Closes: #165516.
797 * s/st_mtime/mtime/ on our local stat structure in apt-ftparchive, to
798 support compliation on platforms where st_mtime is a macro. Closes:
800 * Check the currently mounted cdrom, to see if it's the one we are
801 interested in. Closes: #154602
802 * Refer to reportbug instead of bug in the man pages. Closes: #173745
803 * Link apt-inst to apt-pkg. Closes: #175055
804 * New apt_preferences man page from Thomas Hood, Susan Kleinmann,
806 * Fix > 300 col screen segfault. Closes: #176052
807 * Rebuild with gcc-3.2. Closes: #177752, #178008.
808 * Fix build-dep handling of | dependencies.
809 Closes: #98640, #145997, #158896, #172901
810 * Double default value of APT::Cache-Limit, until such time as it
811 can be made more dynamic. Closes: #178623.
812 * Report uris with '.gz' when there are errors. Closes: #178435.
813 * When installing build-deps, make sure the new version will
814 satisfy build requirements. Closes: #178121
815 * Split offline and guide documentation into apt-doc. This was done so
816 that binary-arch builds do not require documention deps. Note, that
817 apt-doc is not installed on upgrades.
818 * Use doc-base, instead of dhelp directly. Closes: #110389
819 * Change http message 'Waiting for file' to 'Waiting for headers'.
821 * Remove trailing lines on package lists in apt-get. Closes: #178736.
822 * Fix origin pins for file:// uris. Closes: #189014.
823 * Apply typo and syntax patch from bug to apt-cache.8.sgml. Closes:
825 * s/dpkg-preconfig/dpkg-preconfigure/ in examples/configure-index.
827 * Fix some typos in the apt-get manual. Closes: #163932.
828 * Apply patch from bug, to change frozen to testing, and then do it
829 everywhere else. Closes: #165085.
830 * Update es.po. Closes: #183111.
831 * Add pt_BR translation of apt_preferences(5). Also, build fr manpages.
833 * Add a vcg command to apt-cache, similiar to dotty. Closes: #150512.
834 * Add option to apt-get to show versions of packages being
836 * Be quiet in apt.post{inst,rm}. Closes: #70685.
837 * apt-get now prints out suggested and recommended packages. Closes:
839 * Insert some newlines in the cdrom change media message. Closes:
841 * Add a rdepends command to apt-cache. Closes: #159864.
842 * When building the dpkg command line, allow for 8192 chars to be used,
843 instead of only 1024.
844 * APT::Immediate-Configure had inverted semantics(false meant it was
845 enabled). Closes: #173619.
846 * Fix status file parser so that if a record is larger than 32k, the
847 buffer size will be doubled, and the read attempted again. Closes:
850 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500
852 apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
854 * M68k config.guess patch. Closes: #88913
855 * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
856 * Doc updates. Closes: #89121, #89854, #99671, #98353, #95823, #93057,
857 #97520, #102867, #101071, #102421, #101565, #98272, #106914,
859 * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
860 * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
862 * More patches from Alfredo for Vendors and more SHA-1 stuff
863 * Fix for AJ's 'desire to remove perl-5.005' and possibly other
864 similar situations. Closes: #56708, #59432
865 * no_proxy and ftp. Closes: #89671
866 * Philippe Batailler's man page patches.
867 * Fix for display bug. Closes: #92033, #93652, #98468
868 * Use more than 16bits for the dep ID. Some people ran out..
869 Closes: #103020, #97809, #102951, #99974, #107362, #107395, #107362,
870 #106911, #107395, #108968
871 * Reordered some things to make dante and FTP happier. Closes: #92757
872 * James R. Van Zandt's guide.sgml updates. Closes: #90027
873 * apt-ftparchive copes with no uncompressed package files + contents.
874 * French man pages from philippe batailler - well sort of. They
876 * run-parts. Closes: #94286
877 * 'apt-cache policy' preferences debug tool.
878 * Whatever. Closes: #89762
879 * libstdc++ and HURD. Closes: #92025
880 * More apt-utils verbage. Closes: #86954
881 * Fliped comparision operator. Closes: #94618
882 * Used the right copyright file. Closes: #65691
883 * Randolph's G++3 patches.
884 * Fixed no_proxy tokanizing. Closes: #100046
885 * Strip Config-Version when copying status to available. Closes: #97520
886 * Segfault with missing source files. Closes: #100325
887 * EINTR check. Closes: #102293
888 * Various changes to the locking metholodgy for --print-uris.
890 * Lame LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing. Closes: #98928
891 * apt-cache search searchs provide names too now. Closes: #98695
892 * Checksum and long lines problem. Closes: #106591
893 * .aptignr and empty files are just a warning. Closes: #97364
895 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:59 -0500
897 apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
899 * JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working. Closes: #88675
900 * Fixed apt override disparity
901 * Alfredo's SHA-1 and related patches
903 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
905 apt (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Fixed mention of /usr/doc in the long description
908 * JoeyH's downgrade bug -- don't use 0.5.1
909 * Doc bug. Closes: #88538
910 * Fault in building release strings. Closes: #88533
912 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:39:43 -0700
914 apt (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Fixed #82894 again, or should be and.
917 * Process the option string right. Closes: #86921
918 * Don't eat the last command for pipes. Closes: #86923
919 * Ignore .* for configuration directory processing. Closes: #86923
920 * Alfredo's no_proxy patch
921 * Documentation fixes. Closes: #87091
922 * JoeyH's double slash bug. Closes: #87266
923 * Unintitialized buffer and apt-ftparchive contents generation.
925 * Build-deps on virtual packages. Closes: #87639
926 * Fixes glibc/libstdc++ symbol dependencies by including glibc and
927 libstdc++ version info in the library soname and in the package
928 provides. Closes: #87426
929 * Updated soname version to 0.3.2
930 * apt-extracttemplates moved from debconf into apt-utils
931 * s390 archtable entry. Closes: #88232
933 * Some instances where the status file can source a package in a
934 non-sensical way. Closes: #87390
935 * Work better if there are duplicate sources.list entries.
936 * Fixed the resetting of Dir with "dir {};". Closes: #87323
938 -- Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:37:38 -0700
940 apt (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Fixed an obscure bug with missing final double new lines in
944 * Changed the apt-cdrom index copy routine to use the new section
946 * Added a package file sorter, apt-sortpkgs
947 * Parse obsolete Optional dependencies.
948 * Added Ben's rsh method. Closes: #57794
949 * Added IPv6 FTP support and better DNS rotation support.
950 * Include the server IP in error messages when using a DNS rotation.
952 * Made most of the byte counters into doubles to prevent 32bit overflow.
954 * HTTP Authorization. Closes: #61158
955 * Ability to parse and return source index build depends from Randolph.
956 * new 'apt-get build-dep' command from Randolph. Closes: #63982
957 * Added apt-ftparchive the all dancing all singing FTP archive
959 * Allow version specifications with =1.2.4-3 and /2.2 or /stable postfixes
961 * Removed useless internal cruft including the xstatus file.
962 * Fixed config parser bugs. Closes: #67848, #71108
963 * Brain Damanged apt-get config options changed, does not change the command
964 line interface, except to allow --enable-* to undo a configuration
967 No-Download -> Download
968 No-Upgrade -> Upgrade
969 * Made this fix configable (DSelect::CheckDir) and default to disabled:
970 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
971 Because it is stupid in the case where no files were downloaded due to
972 a resumed-aborted install, or a full cache! Closes: #65952
973 * Obscure divide by zero problem. Closes: #64394
974 * Update sizetable for mips. Closes: #62288
975 * Fixed a bug with passive FTP connections
976 * Has sizetable entry for sparc64. Closes: #64869
977 * Escape special characters in the ::Label section of the cdroms.lst
978 * Created apt-utils and python-apt packages
979 * Due to the new policy engine, the available file may contain entries
980 from the status file. These are generated if the package is not obsolete
981 but the policy engine prohibits using the version from the package files.
982 They can be identified by the lack of a Filename field.
983 * The new policy engine. Closes: #66509, #66944, #45122, #45094, #40006,
984 #36223, #33468, #22551
985 * Fixed deb-src line for non-us. Closes: #71501, #71601
986 * Fixes for G++ 2.96, s/friend/friend class/
987 * Fixed mis doc of APT::Get::Fix-Missing. Closes: #69269
988 * Confirmed fix for missing new line problem. Closes: #69386
989 * Fixed up dhelp files. Closes: #71312
990 * Added some notes about dselect and offline usage. Closes: #66473, #38316
991 * Lock files on read only file systems are ignored w/ warning.
993 * apt-get update foo now gives an error! Closes: #42891
994 * Added test for shlibs on hurd. Closes: #71499
995 * Clarified apt-cache document. Closes: #71934
996 * DocBook SGML man pages and some improvements in the text..
997 * sigwinch thing. Closes: #72382
998 * Caching can be turned off by setting the cache file names blank.
999 * Ignores arches it does not know about when autocleaning. Closes: #72862
1000 * New function in apt-config to return dirs, files, bools and integers.
1001 * Fixed an odd litle bug in MarkInstall and fixed it up to handle
1002 complex cases involving OR groups and provides.
1003 68754 describes confusing messages which are the result of this..
1004 Closes: #63149, #69394, #68754, #77683, #66806, #81486, #78712
1005 * Speeling mistake and return code for the 'wicked' resolver error
1006 Closes: #72621, #75226, #77464
1007 * Solved unable to upgrade libc6 from potato to woody due to 3 package
1008 libc6 dependency loop problem.
1009 * Leading sources.list spaces. Closes: #76010
1010 * Removed a possible infinite loop while processing installations.
1011 * Man page updates. Closes: #75411, #75560, #64292, #78469
1012 * ReduceSourceList bug. Closes: #76027
1013 * --only-source option. Closes: #76320
1014 * Typos. Closes: #77812, #77999
1015 * Different status messages. Closes: #76652, #78353
1016 * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory for Joey and Matt and pipe protocol 2
1017 * OS detection an support for the new pseduo standard of os-arch for the
1018 Architecture string. Also uses regexing.. Closes: #39227, #72349
1019 * Various i18n stuff. Note that this still needs some i18n wizard
1020 to do the last gettextization right. Closes: #62386
1021 * Fixed a problem with some odd http servers/proxies that did not return
1022 the content size in the header. Closes: #79878, #44379
1023 * Little acquire bugs. Closes: #77029, #55820
1024 * _POSIX_THREADS may not be defined to anything, just defined..
1026 * Spelling of Ignore-Hold correctly. Closes: #78042
1027 * Unlock the dpkg db if in download only mode. Closes: #84851
1028 * Brendan O'Dea's dselect admindir stuff. Closes: #62811
1029 * Patch from BenC. Closes: #80810
1030 * Single output of some names in lists. Closes: #80498, #43286
1031 * Nice message for people who can't read syserror output. Closes: #84734
1032 * OR search function. Closes: #82894
1033 * User's guide updates. Closes: #82469
1034 * The AJ/JoeyH var/state to var/lib transition patch. Closes: #59094
1035 * Various CD bugs, again thanks to Greenbush
1036 Closes: #80946, #76547, #71810, #70049, #69482
1037 * Using potato debhelper. Closes: #57977
1038 * I cannot self-terminate. Closes: #74928
1040 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:39:15 -0500
1042 apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
1046 * Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
1047 * Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
1048 * Fixed Jay's relative path bug
1049 * Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
1050 * Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
1051 * Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
1052 * Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
1053 * Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
1054 * Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
1055 * Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
1056 with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
1057 * Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
1058 * New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
1059 * Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
1061 * Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
1062 * Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
1063 * Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
1064 forking dpkg. Closes: #63991
1066 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700
1068 apt (0.3.18) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
1071 * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
1072 * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331, #57833, #57896
1074 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:52:31 -0800
1076 apt (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * RFC 2732 usage for CDROM URIs and fixes to apt-cdrom
1079 * Fixed the configuration parser to not blow up if ; is in the config
1081 * Applied visual patch to dselect install script . Closes #55214
1082 * Included the configure-index example
1084 * Library soname has increased
1085 * Fixed default sources.list to have correct URLs for potato when it
1087 * Added a message about erasing sources.list to dselect setup script
1089 * No remove prompt if the archives dir has not changed. Closes: #55709
1090 * Fixed inclusion of 2nd sample config file. Closes: #55374
1091 * Made file mtimes of 0 not confuse the methods If-Modifed-Since check.
1094 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:12:40 -0800
1096 apt (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Made --no-download work. Closes: #52993
1099 * Now compiles on OpenBSD, Solaris and HP-UX
1100 * Clarify segfault errors
1101 * More debhelper fixes. Closes: #52662, #54566, #52090, #53531, #54769
1102 * Fix for Joel's discovery of glibc removal behavoir.
1103 * Fix for Ben Collins file: uri from slink upgrade.
1104 * Fixed resume code in FTP. Closes: #54323
1105 * Take more precautions to prevent the corruption Joey Hess saw.
1106 * Fixed --no-list-cleanup
1107 * RFC 2732 URI parsing ([] for hostnames).
1108 * Typo in apt-cache man page. Closes: #54949
1110 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800
1112 apt (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Added DSelect::WaitAfterDownload Closes: #49549
1115 * Fixed cast error in byteswap macro and supporting code. Closes: #50093
1116 * Fixed buffer overflow for wide terminal sizes. Closes: #50295
1117 * Made -s and clean not do anything. Closes: #50238
1118 * Problem with Protected packages and the new OR code.
1119 * /usr/share/doc stuff. Closes: #51017, #50228, #51141
1120 * Remove doesn't require a package to be installable. Closes: #51175
1121 * FTP proxy touch ups in the mabn page. Closes: #51315, #51314
1123 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:17:24 -0800
1125 apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
1128 * Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
1129 * Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
1130 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
1131 * Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
1132 Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
1133 * Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
1134 * Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
1135 * Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
1136 Closes: #46639, #47498
1137 * mipsel arch Closes: #47614
1138 * Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
1139 * Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
1140 * Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
1141 event of a failure Closes: #47112
1142 * Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
1143 * Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
1144 * Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
1145 * no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
1146 * apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
1147 * De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
1148 * Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
1149 * Dependency reports now show OR group relations
1150 * Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
1151 * Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
1152 * Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
1153 * Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
1154 * --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
1155 * Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
1156 * Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
1157 * Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
1158 * Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
1159 * Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
1160 * Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
1162 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
1164 apt (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Fix timestamp miss in FTP. Closes: #44363
1167 * Fix sorting of Kept packages. Closes: #44377
1168 * Fix Segfault for dselect-upgrade. Closes: #44436
1169 * Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes #43830
1170 * Added APT::Get::Diff-Only and Tar-Only options. Closes #44384
1171 * Add commented-out deb-src URI to default sources.list file.
1173 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:54:20 -0700
1175 apt (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Fix for typo in the dhelp index. Closes: #40377
1178 * Multiple media swap support
1179 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1180 * Better handling of - remove notation. Closes: #41024
1181 * Purge support. Closes: #33291, #40694
1182 * Error code on failed update. Closes: #41053
1183 * apt-cdrom adds entries for source directories. Closes: #41231
1184 * Sorts the output of any list. Closes: #41107
1185 * Fixes the looping problem. Closes: #41784, #42414, #44022
1186 * Fixes the CRC mechanism to lowercase all strings. Closes: #41839
1187 * More checks to keep the display sane. Particularly when fail-over is
1188 used with local mirrors and CD-Roms. Closes: #42127, #43130, #43668
1189 * PThread lockup problem on certain sparc/m68k. Closes: #40628
1190 * apt-cdrom understands .gz Package files too. Closes: #42779
1191 * Spelling error in dselect method description. Closes: #43251
1192 * Added security to the default source list. Closes: #43356
1194 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:04:28 -0700
1196 apt (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Fix for mis-parsed file: URIs. Closes: #40373, #40366, #40230
1199 * Fix for properly upgrading the system from perl 5.004 to 5.005
1201 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:06:44 -0700
1203 apt (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Spelling error in cachefile.cc. Closes: #39885
1206 * Trailing slash in dselect install if you try to use the
1207 default config file. Closes: #40011
1208 * Simulate works for autoclean. Closes: #39141
1209 * Fixed spelling errors. Closes: #39673
1210 * Changed url parsing a bit. Closes: #40070, #40069
1211 * Version 0.3.8 will be for slink/hamm (GNU libc 2).
1213 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:52 -0700
1215 apt (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Fixed missing text in the apt-get(8) page. Closes: #37596
1218 * Made --simulate and friends work with apt-get source. Closes: #37597, #37656
1219 * Fixed inclusion of man pages in the -doc/-dev package. Closes: #37633, #38651
1220 * Fixed handling of the -q option with not-entirely integer arguments
1222 * Man page typo Closes: #37762
1223 * Fixed parsing of the Source: line. Closes: #37679
1224 * Dpkg/dpkg-hurd source bug. Closes: #38004, #38032
1225 * Added a check for an empty cache directory. Closes: #37963
1226 * Return a failure code if -d is given and packages fail to download.
1228 * Arranged for an ftp proxy specifing an http server to work. See the
1229 important note in the sources.list man page.
1230 * Accounted for resumed files in the cps calculation. Closes: #36787
1231 * Deal with duplicate same version different packages. Closes: #30237
1232 * Added --no-download. Closes: #38095
1233 * Order of apt-cdrom dist detection. Closes: #38139
1234 * Fix apt-cdrom chop handling and missing lines. Closes: #37276
1236 * Suggests dpkg-dev for apt-get source. Closes: #38158
1237 * Fixed typo in apt-get help. Closes: #38712
1238 * Improved the error message in the case of broken held package. Closes: #38777
1239 * Fixed handling of MD5 failures
1240 * Documented list notation Closes: #39008
1241 * Change the 'b' to 'B'. Closes: #39007
1243 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:36:20 -0700
1245 apt (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Note that 0.3.5 never made it out the door..
1248 * Fix for apt-cdrom and unusual disk label locations. Closes: #35571
1249 * Made APT print numbers in decimal. Closes: #35617, #37319
1250 * Buffer munching fix for FTP. Closes: #35868
1251 * Typo in sample config file. Closes: #35907
1252 * Fixed whitespace in version compares. Closes: #35968, #36283, #37051
1253 * Changed installed size counter to only count unpacked packages.
1255 * apt-get source support. Closes: #23934, #27190
1256 * Renames .debs that fail MD5 checking, provides automatic corruption
1257 recovery. Closes: #35931
1258 * Fixed autoconf verison. Closes: #37305
1259 * Random Segfaulting. Closes: #37312, #37530
1260 * Fixed apt-cache man page. Closes: #36904
1261 * Added a newline to apt-cache showpkg. Closes: #36903
1263 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 09:18:49 -0700
1265 apt (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Release for Ben while he is out of town.
1268 * Checked the size of partial files. Closes: #33705
1269 * apt-get should not print progress on non-tty. Closes: #34944
1270 * s/guide.text.gz/users-guide.txt.gz/ debian/control: Closes: #35207
1271 * Applied cdrom patches from Torsten. Closes: #35140, #35141
1272 * smbmounted cdrom fix. Closes: #35470
1273 * Changed ie to eg. Closes: #35196
1275 -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:26:44 -0500
1277 apt (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Fixes bug with file:/ URIs and multi-CD handling. Closes: #34923
1281 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:15:44 -0800
1283 apt (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Major release into unstable of v3
1286 * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
1287 the man pages as well..
1288 Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
1289 #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
1290 #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
1291 #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
1292 #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
1293 #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
1294 #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
1295 #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596
1297 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:14:25 -0800
1299 apt (0.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
1301 * Minor release of cvs version.
1302 * Added virtual package libapt-pkgx.x
1304 -- Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:52:44 -0500
1306 apt (0.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
1308 * New experimental version.
1310 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:53:21 -0800
1312 apt (0.1.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Return to the wacky numbering for when we build 0.1.8 for hamm
1315 * Important bug related to APT on the Alpha fixed
1316 * apt-get dist-upgrade problems fixed
1317 * tiny patch for http method to fix an endless loop
1318 * nice fix from /usr/doc/lintian/ to remove rpath nastiness from
1319 libtool and add proper shared lib dependancies
1320 * now dh_shlibdeps is called with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/tmp/usr/lib
1321 in case an old libpkg is installed while building APT to prevent
1322 spurious dependancies
1324 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:43:25 -0800
1326 apt (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * New build with libstdc++2.9.
1329 * Various fixes; read the Changelog.
1331 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:29:18 -0700
1333 apt (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Various fixes in the FTP method for error checking. Fixes: #26188.
1336 * Spelling corrections in dselect method. Fixes: #25884
1337 * Fixes for compilation on alpha/ppc. Fixes: #25313, #26108.
1338 * No more bo releases: we're using a normal numbering system now.
1340 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700
1342 apt (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Changed sources.list to point to 'unstable' by default, as
1345 'frozen' no longer exists!
1347 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:00:18 -0700
1349 apt (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * New upstreamish version.
1352 * ftp method rewritten in C. Removes dependancies on all perl/perl
1353 related modules. This fixes many of the ftp method bugs.
1355 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:19:00 -0700
1357 apt (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Release for unstable.
1361 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:48:30 -0700
1363 apt (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Kludge to fix problem in libnet-perl with illegal anonymous
1367 * Moved to unstable; apt is in a useable state now.
1368 * Fixed version numbering. From now on, numbering will be:
1369 0.1 (no actual release) -> 0.1.0bo (release for libc5) ->
1370 0.1.1 (release for unstable). Thanks, Manoj.
1372 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:40:58 -0700
1374 apt (0.0.17-1) experimental; urgency=low
1376 * Fixed problem with libc6 version compare
1377 * Scott's away for a while, so I'll be packaging apt for the time
1380 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:02:03 -0700
1382 apt (0.0.16-1) experimental; urgency=low
1384 * Modifications to make apt-get more friendly when backgrounded.
1385 * Updated documentation.
1386 * Updates to graphic widgets
1388 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:22:02 -0400
1390 apt (0.0.15-0.2bo) experimental; urgency=low
1393 * Bob Hilliards crash
1395 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1397 apt (0.0.15-0.1bo) experimental; urgency=low
1400 * libstdc++272 patch
1402 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Sun, 31 May 1998 20:18:35 -0600
1404 apt (0.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
1406 * Clean up source tarball (no user-visible changes)
1408 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 26 May 1998 12:23:53 -0400
1410 apt (0.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
1412 * Updates in ordering code to make sure certain upgrades work correctly.
1413 * Made dselect/setup understand ftp as well as http
1415 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Wed, 20 May 1998 13:33:32 -0400
1417 apt (0.0.13-bo1) experimental; urgency=low
1421 -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:49 -0600
1423 apt (0.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
1425 * Remove hardcoded egcc from debian/rules (#21575)
1426 * Fixes for ordering logic when system has a number of unpacked
1427 but unconfigured packages installed.
1428 * Spelling fix in dselect install method (#22556)
1430 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 20:08:33 -0400
1432 apt (0.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
1434 * Fixed problems with package cache corruption.
1435 * Made to depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7pre1 due to timezone problems with
1437 * Interface and documentation improvements.
1439 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 16 May 1998 23:17:32 -0400
1441 apt (0.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
1443 * Change dependancies to pre-depends since breaking your packaging tools
1444 in the middle of an installation isn't very good.
1445 * Bug fixes to ftp method and general apt-get code
1447 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 1998 08:57:38 -0400
1449 apt (0.0.10) experimental; urgency=low
1451 * Run "dpkg --configure -a" after an aborted dselect install
1452 * Fixed problem with install looping
1453 * Support for authenticating proxys: (note this isn't terribly secure)
1454 http_proxy="http://user:pass@firewall:port/"
1455 * Substitute $ARCH in sources.list
1456 * Fixes in the resumption code for ftp
1458 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 1998 09:14:41 -0400
1460 apt (0.0.9) experimental; urgency=low
1462 * Added ftp support.
1463 * Various other less visible bug fixes.
1464 * Fixed problem with segfault when apt-get invoked in a non-existant
1465 directory (Bug #21863)
1466 * Bumped policy to 2.4.1
1468 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 1 May 1998 09:18:19 -0400
1470 apt (0.0.8) experimental; urgency=low
1472 * Fixed generated available file (Bug #21836)
1473 * Added download ETA (Bug #21774).
1474 * Fixed hardcoded ARCH (Bug #21751).
1475 * Fixed check on http_proxy (Bug #21795).
1476 * Added download speed indicator.
1478 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:58:32 -0400
1480 apt (0.0.7) experimental; urgency=low
1482 * Remove libdeity and apt from package for now, since only apt-get and
1483 apt-cache are actually useful right now.
1484 * Clean up handling of package installation errors.
1485 * Added timeout to http transfers (#21269)
1486 * Updated setup for dselect/apt method.
1488 * Long options (added in 0.0.6)
1490 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:06:49 -0400
1492 apt (0.0.6) experimental; urgency=low
1495 * Revamped download status display.
1496 * Call apt-get clean after successful install in dselect.
1497 * Added "apt-get clean" which deletes package files from /var/cache/apt
1499 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:13:59 -0400
1501 apt (0.0.5) experimental; urgency=low
1503 * Ignore signals while dpkg is running so we don't leave dpkg running in
1504 the background (#20804)
1505 * Check Packages as well as Packages.gz for file URIs (#20784)
1506 * Spelling cleanup (#20800)
1507 * Added -m option to permit upgrade to go on in the case of a bad mirror.
1508 This option may result in incomplete upgrades when used with -f.
1510 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:40:29 -0400
1512 apt (0.0.4) experimental; urgency=low
1515 * Various documentation updates and cleanup.
1516 * Added '-f' option to apt-get attempt to fix broken dependancies.
1518 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:36:00 -0500
1520 apt (0.0.3) experimental; urgency=low
1522 * Added a shlibs.local file to prevent apt from depending on itself.
1523 * Updates to how apt-get handles bad states in installed packages.
1524 * Updated rules to make sure build works from a freshly checked out source
1525 archive. Building from CVS needs libtool/automake/autoconf, builds from
1526 the distributed source package should have no such dependancy.
1528 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:49:47 -0500
1530 apt (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Updates to apt-get and http binding for dselect method (apt).
1533 * Updating version number from 0.0.1, which was released only on IRC.
1535 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:35:18 -0500
1537 apt (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1541 -- Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:49:28 -0500